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Why Did the Mississippi River City of Cahokia Decline? - The Rise and Fall of Cahokia | Sleepy Facts About History
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Long before European contact, the Mississippi River floodplain in what is now Illinois became the site of a remarkable urban experiment. Around the year 1050, scattered Indigenous villages rapidly consolidated into a densely populated center known as Cahokia. At its peak, the city housed perhaps twenty thousand people and was anchored by Monks Mound, the largest prehistoric earthwork in the Americas. Built entirely by Indigenous hands carrying baskets of soil, this monumental landscape…
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